Pluralizer

Quick meaning: Pluralizer is a noun meaning (grammar) A syntactic marker that indicates something is plural; a plural marker.

Meaning

(grammar) A syntactic marker that indicates something is plural; a plural marker.

More Meanings

1. Someone or something that highlights or embodies plurality, diversity, or multiple perspectives; an agent or proponent of pluralism.

Example Sentences

The evidence in chapter 15 suggests that the suffix -z is the unmarked pluralizer; yet , of our six verbs , only two take it .

The pluralizer is most frequently used with animate nouns, but this is not always the case, e.g. Nigerian PE 'dè nyám dḝm ' 'the yams'.

Rather than a philosopher or a pluralizer, I may be more of an empiricist, insofar as my aim is not to rediscover the eternal or the universal, but to find the conditions under which something new is produced (creativeness) .

It is after all Freud—with his confusing picture of inversion's genealogy in the first few pages of the Three Essays, especially in footnotes added in 1910, 1915, and 1920—who can be considered the first pluralizer of homosexuality.

Word Forms

• pluralizers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ess, pluralist, platitudinizer, multiprofessional, pulpiteer, pontificator.

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